Far East Cynic

Refusing to play the tape to the end.

Supporting Elon Musk’s illegal and treasonous efforts will not help you in the end. Without a doubt, the most amazing thing I have witnessed in the last month is the abject stupidity of a heck of a lot of American citizens. These are people who claim to love America but

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About that criticism of Tim Walz…..

On Wednesday, Senator JD Vance of Ohio accused Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota of quitting the Army National Guard two decades ago to avoid being deployed to Iraq. It is worth remembering that JD Vance did one enlistment in the Marine Corps and then left the service. On the other

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The nameless servants of evil ( Part 2)

One of the trite amorphisms used by conservatives and others repeatedly is, ” We are not a democracy; we are a Republic.” As if the two terms are mutually exclusive when they are meant to be used together. The United States is a Constitutional Democratic Republic with its governing officials

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A picture is worth a thousand words.

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a festive holiday season, well, at least as joyful as one could be in the shadow of the continuing disaster that is COVID and the unacceptable US response to it. Just a reminder of a couple of current facts: Even if Omicron is

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The grieving process is continuing….and the only proper response to our Red Hat wearing citizens.

It has been well over 7 weeks since I have had the will to put my hand to keyboard and write anything of significance. Sure, I’ve been attacking the usual idiots on Twitter and also been observing the closet fascists from my alma mater trying to wreak their havoc, but

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Not liking a comparison does not mean that the comparison is incorrect

A quick post on the recent stunt by Florida’s legislature and deadly governor Ron DeSantis. Last June, I wrote a post about how today’s Republican party proves its resemblance to the apartheid government every day. In it, I noted, “What is also very much like South Africa, is the attempt

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The price is not right.

It’s Golden Week in Japan. That succession of holidays strung together designed to encourage Japanese citizens to go somewhere and spend some of their hard-earned yen. In Japan, May 1st is not a holiday, but many people take it off, and to the rest of the civilized world is Labor

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The good news and the bad news ( Part 1)

I’ve been holding off posting anything because I wanted to watch the outcome of Trump’s efforts to pull off a coup de etat following the election. I was anxious and am still worried that Trump would try to steal the election and usurp the results to ensure he stays in

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There can be no redemption for this.

A worthless man, you know very little about, achieved his long-stated goal of destroying the United States tonight. That man is Leonard Leo, former head of the Federalist Society: Leonard Leo is on the brink of achieving the goal he has been working toward for decades: a lasting conservative supermajority on the

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Shooting lots of people on 5th Avenue

Donald Trump once said that he could shoot someone in the middle of 5th avenue in New York, and it would not affect his support one bit. The last four years have proved that assertion depressingly true – which is a tribute to the overall stupidity of the American people

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